PACKAGE #1Video Only (Interview: 60 Minutes)
Price: $ 1,150*
This package includes: Pre-interview with family member or friend—60-minute videotaped
My Long Story Short interview session—distinctive video editing, design, and production services.
The price includes one professionally produced video, delivered in two formats—DVD and flash-drive.Note: Video Only (Extended - 90 Minute Interview) - $1,850.
Each Additional Half-Hour - $700.Additional videos can be ordered.
*See the FAQs section for additional product and pricing information.

PACKAGE #2Book + Video (Interview: 60 Minutes)
Price: $ 19,950*
This package includes: Pre-interview with family member or friend—60-minute videotaped
My Long Story Short interview session—full transcription—writing and editing services—graphic
book design—distinctive video editing, design and production services.The price includes (1) a finely-bound, hard-cover book containing text and photographs;
and (2) a professionally produced video, delivered in two formats—DVD and flash-drive. Additional books and videos can be ordered.
*See the FAQs section for additional product and pricing information. PACKAGE #3Book + Video (Interview: 90 Minutes)
Price: $ 23,450*This package includes: Pre-interview with family member or friend—90-minute videotaped
My Long Story Short interview session—full transcription—writing and editing services—graphic
book design—distinctive video editing, design and production services.The price includes (1) a finely-bound, hard-cover book containing text and photographs;
and (2) a professionally produced video, delivered in two formats—DVD and flash-drive. Additional books and videos can be ordered.
*See the FAQs section for additional product and pricing information.

PACKAGE #4Special Full Family History—Oral History Option
Price: To Be Determined
This package includes: Pre-interview with family member or friend—customized long-form videotaped
interview session (length to be determined)—full transcription—writing and editing services—graphic
book design—distinctive video editing, design and production services.The price includes (1) a finely-bound, hard-cover book containing text and photographs;
and (2) a professionally produced video delivered in two formats—DVD and flash-drive. Additional books and videos can be ordered.
See the FAQs section for additional product and pricing information.

Do you want help with something you have already started?

EDITORIAL SERVICESAssistance with Writing, Structuring, Editing,
and/or Proofreading Your Memoir or Biography
Price: Hourly—To Be DeterminedHave you started the process of writing your own personal or family history, or memoir?
If so, we can assist you with the writing and structuring of this extraordinary project.
Sometimes, it is simply good to bounce ideas off of another (unrelated) individual. That would be Harry.
Please feel free to contact us so we can discuss the specifics. Once we discuss the nature,
and the overall complexity and length of the work, we can work out a satisfactory price plan.

Product Samples

VideoSample:

The clip on the right is a sample of a "My Long
Story Short" video.

Each "My Long Story Short" interview is
recorded using a high-definition video recorder, as well as a condenser lavalier microphone, to assure the highest audio quality of the interviewee's voice. The
final video is then carefully edited—incorporating the footage from the full
interview, as well as photographs captured during the interview session.
Additional photographs—chosen and supplied by the client—are also creatively
weaved into the presentation. Depending on the length of the chosen interview
package, the video will run approximately 60 to 90 minutes.

Please click on the thumbnail below
to view the video clip sample.

Book Sample:

Please click on the thumbnail to the right to view a "My Long Story Short" hard-cover book sample.

Each "My Long Story Short" interview is
first fully and meticulously transcribed. The book's text is then composed from
the full transcription, and photographs captured
during the interview session are creatively positioned throughout the
book. Additional photographs—chosen and supplied by the client—are included in the final layout.

Please click on the thumbnail below
to view the book sample.

On Love & Marriage . . .

"And
we can sit here, watch the old movies, I pat her on the leg, we have
popcorn—and I tell her, 'You know, this is the best time of day for me.
It's about 6:30 or 7:00 at night, I don't have a worry in the world. I've got my sweetheart here beside me. What more in life could you ask
for? God's in his heaven and all is right with the world.'"
—Fran Lovell (81) and his wife of 60 years, Betty Wichita, Kansas

On Money & Wealth . . .

"You live through something like the Dust Bowl you've pretty much learned you can handle just about anything that comes up in life. I remember when my daddy had his farm foreclosed, I saw him put his head down on the table and just cry. Of course, we didn't really comprehend all of it at the time. We were just worried, scared. I mean, what were we gonna do? If they took our farm where would we live?" —Hazel McCrary (89)
Stillwater, Oklahoma